Denis Leary on autism........can someone spell IGNORANT?

ALL I CAN SAY IS OUR KIDS ARE ALREADY SO MUCH SMARTER THAN DENIS LEARY COULD EVER HOPE TO BE. WHAT AN IDIOT.

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Denis Leary's view on autism has irked the Autism Society of America. The "Rescue Me" actor said in his new book that the buzz around the brain development disorder is caused by parents.

In Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Leary slams kids with autism as "morons" who are "stupid" and/or just plain "lazy."

He writes, "There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks... to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons."

"I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both."

Unsurprisingly, the Autism Society of America lashes back at the actor, saying, "For Mr. Leary to suggest that families or doctors conspire to falsely diagnose autism is ridiculous... [His] remarks reflect the same misconceptions of autism being caused by bad or unemotional parenting that were held over 50 years ago."

here is what he had to say of course:

“…If they have (read the book), they missed the sections I thought made my feelings about autism very clear: that I not only support the current rational approaches to the diagnoses and treatment of real autism but have witnessed it firsthand while watching very dear old friends raise a functioning autistic child.”

I cannot imagine any FRIEND of his with an autistic child finding this humorous in any way, shape or form. I wouldn't want to be your friend.

NOW READ that statement closely.....there is a KEY word in there.....key phrase.....where he says he supports diagnosis and treatment of "REAL" autism. Guess he is one that thinks a lot of kids with REAL autism don't have REAL autism..... and let's pat him on the back for sitting around WATCHING his friends raise their autistic child. No mention of him HELPING them. AND I guess we all assume (ass-u-me) that you meant HIGH functioning autistic child as any child while they are breathing and still alive would be considered "functioning" whether autistic or not. Yeah....I am nit picky.

MY advice......perhaps Mr. Leary you should re-title your book to WHY I SUCK...leave WE out of it! Just what the world needs.....another trash book......tearing people and things down instead of building them up. And we are to laugh about that? Where's the humor? Did you get picked on Mr. Leary....do you still get picked on? Is the only way you can GET attention these days is to HOP on the band wagon by MENTIONING AUTISM and then trashing it? Because until you did.....I can honestly say I had not heard anything about you for YEARS!! DECADES!!!!!! So congratulations......you made the news. What a wonderful legacy you are building up to leave behind one day. Won't it be wonderful for you to realize one day the majority of ways you will be REMEMBERED is "oh yeah...wasn't he that one who said autistics were morons and stupid and lazy? " ......."he trashed autistic kids and created chatter about his book....what was it called? I SUCK? WHY I SUCK??????" gee......I don't remember ....." No mention will be made of anything noteworthy you have done to date in your lifetime.....unless that changes of course because as of right now I am not aware of you doing anything noteworthy. This is about as NOTEworthy as your history has been and this is about as NEGATIVE noteworthiness as one can accomplish. Guess you really do understand the whole "SUCK" concept after all.